The early South-English legendary ; or, Lives of saints. I. Ms. Laud, 108, in the Bodleian library. Edited by Carl Horstmann.

                                
                                  Þat þinchez me with on-riȝte it is : ȝwane ich am one a-ȝein heom alle.
                                
                                  ¶ Nov ichulle, for god is min help : a-fonge þat me wole falle."
                                
                                  "Seie, dame conIoun, ȝwat artþou?" : þis o legistre seide,
                                
                                  "Þenchestþou speke a-ȝein ore clergie? : turne þi þouȝt, ich rede!
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                                  Þov seist þat god al-miȝti : dethz on eorþe þolede here:
                                
                                  I-chulle proui þat he ne miȝte a-liue beo : nouþe In none manere.
                                
                                  For, ho-so deiez, he ne may : neuerefft to liue come,
                                
                                  Ȝwane þe vertue of al is bodi : þoru deþe him is bi-nome;
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                                  And þi god al-miȝti is ded : þou ne miȝt libbe nouȝt,
                                
                                  Ȝif he þat scholde ȝiue þe lijf : is to deþe i-brouȝt."
                                
                                  ¶ "Nai," seide þis holi mayde : "þou faillest of þin art,
                                
                                  An-oþur þou most segge, ȝif þou þencst : of þine maistrie to habbe part.
                                
                                  God hadde euere and euere he schal : mid him is god-hede,
                                
                                  And for loue of us In ore flesche : he nam him man-hede:
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                                  Of twei þingus he was þo imaked : eiþur moste þo is kuynde a-fonge.
                                
                                  For þe kunde of man-hede us to bugge : he þolede deth wel stronge;
                                
                                  Ake for-to bi-leue ded, a-ȝen kuynde it was : ase of is god-hede,
                                
                                  Þare-fore he aros fram deþe to liue : þo he hadde i-don al is dede.
                                
                                  For þe stronge deþe þat þoruȝ Adam : we weren to i-brouȝt,
                                
                                  Þoruȝ is godhede, i-meynd In ore kuynde : nede moste beon i-bouȝt.
                                
                                  Ȝif þou with-seist þis reson : an oþur i-chulle þe make
                                
                                  Þat grete clerkes seiden In heore lawe : þat man ne may nouȝt for-sake.
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                                  ¶ Platon, þe grete philosophe : þat was heþene of ouwer lawe,
                                
                                  he seide þat god wolde deie : and him-selue to liue aȝen drawe.
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                                  Lokiez In is boke, [omit in is boke]  hov it miȝte beo soth : nouþe In ouwere [r. oþer]  manere,
                                
                                  bote þe muchele god of heuene : bi-come a luyte Man here.
                                
                                  Also Balaam, ouwer prophete : þat heþene was al-so,
                                
                                  In is bok he seide—ȝe wuten wel ȝware : ȝif ȝe wollez loki þer-to—
                                
                                  Þat þare scholde of Iacobes kuynde : a steorre a-rise wel briȝt
                                
                                  Þat scholde kinges and princes : al bi-nimen heom heore miȝt.
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                                  Þat was þat ore louerd wolde : of Iacobes kuynde beon i-bore
                                
                                  & [added.]  ouer-comen alle þat euere weren : sethþe oþer bi-fore.
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                                  And ȝuyt þre kinges of ouwer lawe : on þulke steorre þouȝten,
                                
                                  For þe steorre þo god was i-bore : and þare-fore lok him brouȝten."
                                
                                  Þo þeos Maistres heorden þis mayde speke : of so grete clergie,

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Title: The early South-English legendary ; or, Lives of saints. I. Ms. Laud, 108, in the Bodleian library. Edited by Carl Horstmann.
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Publication: London,: Pub. for the Early English text society by N. Trübner & co.,; 1887.
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